“They were everything they ought to be and nothing else.”
More from Patrick Rothfuss on Truth
“Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense.”
“There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
“I wish I felt as calm as I look”
“But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.”
“...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.”
“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Others on Truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 quotes“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.”
Mark Twain
8 quotes“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”
Cervantes
8 quotes“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”
Aesop
7 quotes“No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth”
Agatha Christie
7 quotes“The innocent must not suffer.”
Malcolm X
7 quotes“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
George Orwell
6 quotes“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
Lord Byron
6 quotes“And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.”
Henrik Ibsen
6 quotes“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.”
Barbara Kingsolver
6 quotes“The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tr...”